My students need leveled books to accompany the Balanced Literacy program that our school has recently adopted.
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My Students
They don't care what you know, until they know that you care." My classroom is an environment in which I have developed a family, and taught my students a caring mentality. I care for each child as if they were my own. My students work hard, and are expected to meet their end of year benchmarks. My students range from gifted to requiring early intervention services.
My school is a public elementary school, but we pride ourselves on such a quality education that we feel as though it is like our students are getting a "Private education for free." My students range from wealthy to receiving free school lunch.
My classroom has a range of diverse backgrounds, including students that are African American, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Caucasian. Our school is an International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme, so we incorporate numerous units of inquiry into our learning in addition to our standards being taught.
My Project
My students would greatly benefit from having a library of leveled readers. These readers are sets of books that apply to each individual student's reading level. This classroom set of leveled reading books will help increase student reading scores. Lakeshore Learning has come up with a fantastic set of these leveled readers for upper elementary students that will apply to all students in my classroom.
The reason this set of leveled reading books would make my class so successful is that it would provide children with books not only on their reading level, but with books to challenge them as well.
Our school has recently adopted the Balanced Literacy reading program, and leveled readers are an essential part of this concept. These leveled reading bins are a great asset, that can be easily used in small groups and centers, with students that are on similar reading levels. Students can also challenge themselves reading a book that is a higher level more than once, or at home for their homework reading log with a parent. All in all, these Lakeshore leveled readers would help make me our classroom a tremendous success.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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